svn commit: r345472 - in head/mail: mmr smtpfeed
Adam Weinberger
adamw at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 11 00:21:08 UTC 2014
>> (2014/03/10 @ 1943 EST): Eitan Adler said, in 1.1K: <<
> On 10 March 2014 10:33, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > +--On 10 mars 2014 14:16:42 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org>
> > wrote:
> > | On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:51:24PM +0000, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > |> New Revision: 345472
> > |> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/345472
> > |> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r345472/
> > |>
> > |> Log:
> > |> Restore LICENSE_FILE as mat pointed out that BSD licenses have
> > |> copyright holder in them.
> > |>
> > |> [...]
> > |>
> > |> LICENSE= GPLv2
> > |> +LICENSE_FILE= ${WRKSRC}/COPYING
> > |
> > | But this on is GPLv2, no?
> >
> > Yes, and ? I pointed that out for the BSD licenses, but it's true for most
> > of them.
> > The only reason for not having a LICENSE_FILE, would be the port only
> > saying it's GPLv2 without shipping with the file.
>
> LICENSE= is largely useless for actual lawyers, but setting
> LICENSE_FILE can be kind of helpful.
> In addition setting LICENSE_FILE can help to find mistakes in LICENSE=
> more easily.
>
> IMHO LICENSE_FILE should always be set.
>
>> end of "Re: svn commit: r345472 - in head/mail: mmr smtpfeed" from Eitan Adler <<
Can it maybe default to `find ${WRKSRC} -name COPYING -or -name LICENSE | head -1`?
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